On Sun, 29 May 2011 19:31:46 +0200, Dejan Marjanovic <dejan.marjanovic@gmail.com> wrote: > We can distribute it.. I will make a downloadable POI file for GPS > devices such as Garmin, TomTom etc, so users can download on their GPS > units and use them while in Banja Luka regardless of them having map > installed... I don't know much about licenses but not selling other > peoples hard work for personal profit is moral thing to do. As just mentioned in another mail, OSM explicitly allows the data in it to be sold (although one wonders why anyone would be willing to pay, unless someone's done a load of extra work in post-processing the data, in which case charging seems fair enough). In other words, it's pretty normal to make a living out of selling other people's work in Free Software land, and if one helps out by making it better at the same time, then everyone wins, which seems pretty moral too. BTW It might be worth actually checking back with the people providing the data whether they'd be OK with us uploading it to OSM, because at the moment we seem to be assuming that they'd not because they've said no selling of it, but the thing they're really selling to garmin is the right to use the data without any extra conditions -- if the data was incorporated into OSM, it would then be covered by the OSM license, which (excepting that there are some arguments about whether CC licenses actually make any sense on map data) should stop anyone being allowed to take the data out again, and sell a similar "Do what you want" license to someone like Garmin, because they'd instead have to explain the CC license to Garmin, which would not get them any money, because Garmin don't want references back to OSM on their devices, and they don't want to have to trust a bunch of map-making hippies ;-) That being the case, I think the original owner would retain the exclusivity that they seem to care about, even if we did upload the POI data to OSM -- if that's true, then we can just pick out the more interesting POIs and put them into OSM as we see fit. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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